Paper vessel.



No. 935,349. Pait entd Oct. 24, I899.

I J. a. REBER.

PAPER VESSEL.

(Application filed Nov. 21, 1898.)

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Patentedflnt. 24, I899,

J. G. REBER.

PAPER VESSEL.

(Application filed N07. 21, 1898.)

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(No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATEN' FF JOHN G. REBER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE J. W. SEFTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE AND ANDERSON, INDIANA.

PAPER'VESSEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,349, dated October 24, 1899.

Application filed November 21,1898. Serial No. 697,690. (No model.)

To and whom it may concern: points of the parts K M will project over upon Be it known that I, JOHN G. REBER, a citizen the side walls C E of the pail, as shown in Fig. of the United States,residing at Chicago,in the 2, for a purpose hereinafter explained. countyofCook,intheStateofIllinois,havein- The blank shown in Fig. 1 is folded into 55 5 vcntedacertain new and useful Improvement open-pail form in the usual manner, the corin Paper Vessels, of which the following is a ner-folds F G being overlapped upon the description, reference being had to the accoinouter face of the side C and the corner-folds panying drawings, forming part of this speci- II I overlapped upon the outer face of the side fication. E and these corner-folds then secured to said 60 My invention relates to paper pails or vessides of the pail by means of the inserted and sels such as are commonly used for carrying clenched ends of the wire bail N in the usual oysters, liquids, and semiliquids; and it conmanner. The ends of the bail are not passed sists in certain improvements whereby withthrough the depending portions K M of the out any material increase in the cost a pail top flaps KM; but, on thecontrary,the depend 6 3 may be produced having substantial advaning lower ends or points of these flaps overv tages over those heretofore used, as will be lap and cover the inner clenched ends of the hereinafter more fully explained. bail N upon the inner faces of the side walls In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is C E of the pail, and thereby serve a twofold a plan View of the blank for my improved pail purpose. In the first place by covering the 2o properly cut and creased for folding into pail inner ends of the bail and the apertures in form; Fig. 2, a middle vertical section of the the sides C E and corner-folds through which folded pail with its lid open; Fig. 3, a correthe bails pass they add somewhat to the liqsponding view with two of the lid-flaps bent uid-tight character of the pail by rendering down to horizontal position to close the pail, less liable leakage through the sides of the 25 and Fig. 4 a perspective View of the pail with pail around the ends of the bail; but their the two remaining lid-fiaps bent down upon principal purpose and advantage are to cover the top of the two above mentioned and sethe ends of the bail and prevent the latter cured in such position by their cooperating from interfering with the .nesting of the fastening devices to completely close the pail. open pails in quantities one within another 30 The same letters of reference are used to in accordance with the usual practice of storindicate corresponding parts in the several ing and handling such pails. Heretofore the views. v projecting inner ends of the bail, especially As shown in Fig. 1, the blank for my imwhere not clenched down tightly upon the proved pail is composed of the bottom portion inner faces of the side walls of the pail, fre- 5 A, sides B C D E, corner-folds F G H I, and quently formed obstructions to this nesting top flaps or lid portions JKLM, all of which, of the pails not only in the act of nesting with the exceptions hereinafter noted, are or them, but also in the act of withdrawing them may be substantially the same as heretofore from the nest for use, the projecting inner common in pails of this class. The excepends of the bail in one pail frequently catch- 0 4o tions are that each of the top flaps or lid poring upon the sides or outer portions of the tions J and L is provided upon its opposite hail of the pail inserted immediately within edges with extensions 0 for a purpose here the first-mentioned pail, thus interfering with inafter explained, while the other two top both the snug insertion and the ready withflaps K M differ from those heretofore emdrawal of the second pail and sometimes 45 ployed in that each is suitably shaped to form damaging it if they are hastily or carelessly two portions K and K and M and M, sepahandled. By the provision of the depending rated from each other by the creased lines a, extensions K M of the top flaps K M the inwhich adapt the parts K M to be folded over ner ends of the bails are entirely covered and and pressed fiat upon the parts K and M, rethe interior of the pail caused to present a I00 50 spectively. When the parts KM are so folded perfectly-smooth surface to the exterior of over upon the parts'K M, the outer ends or the pail inserted immediately within it, thus vices P Q were engaged and secured.

facilitating the snug nesting of the pails and the ready withdrawal of them from the nest.

Vhen the top flaps J L are bent downward to horizontal position, as in Fig. 3, their inturned side extensions 0 will contact with and bear against the side walls B D of the pail and serve to brace and support said top flaps from depression beyond normal closed position by any weight or force applied to the top of the pail. The parts 0 not only serve to supportthe closed cover of the pail, but by fitting snugly against the sides C E of the pail they render the pail more nearly slopproof at the four corners of its top. I am not the first to employ these side extensions 0 upon the cover-flaps of a pail of this general character for the purpose of bracing and supporting the cover of the pail when closed and rendering it more nearly slop-proof at the four corners of its top; but these extensions O are peculiarly useful in my improved pail in combination with the cover-flaps K and M and the metal fastening devices with which the latter are provided, as will be now explained. The extensions 0 upon the coverflaps J L are preferably of such shape that their edges 1), Fig. 2, will, as the flaps J L are bent downward toward horizontal position, contact with the side walls B D of the pail slightly before the flaps J L reach true horizontal position and offer a yielding resistance to farther downward movement of said flaps and tend to spring them upward from horizontal position when pressure upon them is relieved, Fig. 3. Now the cover-flaps K M are provided with cooperating sheetmetal fastening devices P Q of well-known form, by means of which when said flaps are bent downward to horizontal position 011 top of the flaps J L they may be strained toward each other or drawn perfectly taut by means of the metal fasteners P Q and secured in such position by the reverse bending of the tongue of the fastener P in the usual manner, as seen in Fig. 4. By pressing the four flaps down firmly to or towardhorizont'al position at the time the fasteners P Q are engaged and then drawing the flaps K M strongly toward each other by means of the fastener P and bending the latter down upon itself the result will be that the parts 0, which have been strongly pressed at their outer edges against the side walls B D, will tend to spring the cover-flaps J L upward slightly, which tendency will be resisted by the taut connection between the flaps K M holding the latter firmly in the position to which they were depressed at the time the fastening de- The two cover-ilaps J L will thus be pressed upward tightly against the two cover-flaps K M, with the result that a very snug and tight joint will be produced and maintained between the several members of the cover of the pail and the lat-tor be thus very tightly and securely closed.

The double thickness of the cover-flaps K K and M H affords a firm base for the secure attachment of the metal fasteners P Q, enabling such flaps to be drawn strongly toward each other by means of such fasteners, as above explained, without danger of tearing the fasteners loose from the flaps. It will be understood, however, that such double thickness of these cover-flaps is. not absolutely essential to the feature of my invention last above described ,since without departing from it the extensions K M might be omitted, or it retained for the purpose of affording a firm attachment for the metal fasteners they need not be of sufficient size to overlap the sides 0 E of the pail and serve the further purpose of covering the ends of the bail.

As will be apparent from Fig. 1, the blank of my improved pail is cut from the same square or rectangular blank heretofore required for the simplest and cheapest styles of pails of this general character, so that the advantages of my improved pail are attained without any increase in the cost of the pail, while as compared with pails of a somewhat different character heretofore made and intended to embody some of the advantages attained in my improved pail the latter is very much cheaper than such old pails, as well as very much more simple in construction.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim- 1. A paper pail of the character described, having its two cover-flaps K M provided with the extensions K M folded inward upon the flaps K M and overlapping the side walls 0 E of the pail and covering theinner ends of the wire bail N, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The herein-described paper pail having its cover-flaps J L provided with the extensions 0 adapted when said flaps are bent downward to horizontal position to fit against the side walls 0 E of the pail to aid in tightly closing the pail and to contact at their edges with the side walls B D thereof to brace and support the cover of the pail, and having its other two cover-flaps K M provided with the cooperating fastening devices P Q, for drawing them tightly together and holding the cover of the pail closed, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The herein-described paper pail having its cover-flaps J L provided with the extensions 0 adapted when said flaps are bent downward to horizontal position to fit against the side walls 0 E of the pail to aid in tightly closing the pa'il and to contact at their edges with the side walls B D thereof to brace and support the cover of the pail, and having its other two cover-flaps K M provided with extensions K M folded inward upon the flaps K M, said cover-ilaps K K and M M being provided with cooperating fastening devices P Q'for drawing them tightly together and holding the cover of the pail closed, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The herein-described paper pail having its cover-flaps J L provided with the extensions 0 adapted when said flaps are bent downward to horizontal position to fit against the side walls 0 E of the pail and \to contact at their edges with the side walls B D thereof to brace and support the cover of the pail, and having its other two cover-flaps K M provided with the extensions K M folded inward upon the flaps K M and overlapping theside walls 0 E ofthe pail and covering the inner ends of the wire bail N, said cover-flaps K K andM M being provided with cooperating fastening devices P Q for holding the cover of the pail closed, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. The herein-described blank for a paper vessel, composed of the bottom A, four sides B O D E, corner-folds F G H I, and four coverflaps J K L M, the flaps K M being provided with the extensions K M adapted to be folded ing provided with the extensions K M adapted to be folded inward upon the flaps K M and overlap the sides C E, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN G. REBER.

Witnesses:

EDWARD RECTOR, BESSIE SHADBQLT. 

